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Nov. 16, 2016

Friendly Reminder: New Overtime Rules Take Effect December 1

Catalina M. Avalos & Megan L. Janes

If you are not paying your administrative, professional, or executive employees at least $913 per week (the equivalent of $47,476 per year), you may have to pay those employees overtime if they work more than forty hours per week, effective December 1, 2016. Why? The Department of Labor is increasing the minimum salary threshold for the overtime exemption for such employees from the current requirement of at least $455 per week.

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PRESIDENT BIDEN SIGNS INTO LAW A COVID-19 BANKRUPTCY EXTENSION ACT

On Saturday, March 27, 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the "COVID-19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act" which, among other things, extends provisions providing financially distressed consumers and small businesses an expeditious and economical procedure for bankruptcy relief.

Legal Creativity Helps Overcome Business Obstacles

As Published in Florida Trend

Earlier this year, a client was scheduled to close on a commercial condominium they were selling. Certain documents had been sent to recording in order to allow the closing to take place; the buyer insisted that they could be viewed on the public records before he would close. Time was tight and events were not in our client’s favor. The coronavirus had reduced the recording office's staff, making it impossible to know when the documents would be viewable online.

Tripp Scott's Paul May Named One of Broward County Bar Association's 40 Under 40

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 2, 2021 – Tripp Scott, P.A. is proud to announce that Paul May, an associate with the firm, has been named one of the Broward County Bar Association's 40 Under 40.

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